Barnegat Township

A Barnegat Township man who allegedly hit a police detective with his car while backing up in the 711 parking lot on West Bay Avenue Thursday night, then his car is also now facing a number of drug charges.

If you, or someone you know, drives a dark sedan that suddenly developed some minor front-end damage, Barnegat Township police would like a word. It might be the car that banged into another in a parking lot April 28, then drove off.

A structure fire damages a home on Bengal Boulevard in Barnegat Township just after 7:30 pm on Monday night according to Barnegat Volunteer Fire Company Station 11.

Details are being released from an investigation into Barnegat Police Chief Art Drexler, whose been under suspension since the summer of 2016.

A search has begun for a Barnegat woman not seen since Monday, December 12, and police urge anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts to contact them.

The goodies that the kids brought home after trick-or-treating...give it all a good once-over. Barnegat police today fielded a report from a resident of a pin inside a Kit-Kat bar.

The Barnegat Police Department has identified the man suspected of having a role in a Sunday night hit-and-run incident.

Twenty suspects are charged, and one of them has yet to be found, in connection with a lengthy probe of drug activity in southern Ocean County.

If you're planning to take the ATV into the woods for a warm-weather workout, don't bother heading onto private property in Lacey, Ocean or Barnegat Townships in Ocean County. The police will be waiting for you.

If you're trying to reach Barnegat police headquarters by phone, don't bother with their normal non-emergency line until a service glitch that cropped up today is rectified.